Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Around the Campfire => Topic started by: KShip85 on March 11, 2010, 02:41:05 am
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Hey just wondering if anyone has ever done any maple tapping and made syrup from it. An article in the local paper had inspired me to give it a go. Could not believe how fast the sap pours out of there. After about 7 gallons of sap and hours of boiling I believe I have ended with about 20 ounces of syrup. Stuff taste sweet and I think tomorrow I will give it a go on some blueberry pancakes!
Kip
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Never done it, but I think it takes, about 49-50 gallons, to make one gallon of syrup. ;)
I think the Indians, just poured it on snow, and ate it.
Wayne
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HEy Kip,
I had a friend from Vermont who told me that guys would collect many gallons of sap, and then to concentrate it down it had to be boiled for at least 24 hours. They'd cook it in huge vats all night long. But they would just make it into one big social party. They'd all get together and drink and party, and keep throwing wood on the fire to keep the vats boiling. And yeah, it takes a lot of sap just to make a little bit of syrup. I've heard in its natural state it tastes kinda bitter, but hours of boiling concentrates the sugars until it's sweet. I love real maple syrup..I can't stand that fake Log cabin junk.
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The saps running here in the UP buckets hanging on trees everywhere :)
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havent made it in a few years . there is nothing sweeter though. these days i take the sap and boil it down 50 percent. i then use the sap as a base for teas and i make coffee with it. sassafrass root and maple sap is incredible. gonna be doing a rock boiling demonstration on maple syrup next week. peace
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I did some years ago but boiled a lot and got a little. :D
My neighbor has been boiling for a few days now and collects sap every day!!
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Kip, sugared for the first time last year and had a lot of fun with it. I've got posts in "anything else" with the arch and evaporation process. Nothing smells better than the steam from the pot when it turns to syrup! Good luck and have fun!
Tracy
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Too much trouble..........heard you can get it in a Bottle now...already made.............. >:D
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OH MAN !!!!! we do soo much of that here the next three weeks is allmost a state holiday!!!! it's still funny to see a three hundred trees is the woods all conected together with tubes and a big collection tank at the bottom of the hill I love it stoke the fire all night and there may be a malt beverage or two NEW YORK state is kinda cool if we could only sell off nyc JW
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That's our version of making cane syrup down South. It used to be a big social event with all the neighbors chipping in. You hardly see a cane crusher anymore or the big cast iron kettles.
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Too much trouble..........heard you can get it in a Bottle now...already made.............. >:D
El D...heard you can get bows and arrows ready made too!! ;) :D
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Too much trouble..........heard you can get it in a Bottle now...already made.............. >:D
El D...heard you can get bows and arrows ready made too!! ;) :D
No way...... Man is this world something....or what... :P
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My Grandfather used to make his own when I was a kid. I remember how good it was on pancakes, french toast, on ice cream, and right out of the jug when nobody was looking ;). If my memory serves me correctly it was something like ten gallons of sap to get one quart of syrup.